Part 1 Simple positivism. Part 2 Sophisticated Positivism. Part 3 Anti-positivism: reasons for action; law and authority; the point of view of legal theory; the acceptance of law; principle and discretion; interpretation and semantics; law and the common good; anti-positivism's conclusions; the movements of legal thought; compatibilism; the concept of law.
`For a brilliant presentation and appraisal of all moves in this
debate, and of the underlying movements in thought, look no further
than Roger Shiner's Norm and Nature, a quite splendid book ...
scholarly acumen, practical insight, lucid style, and pointed
wit.'
Neil MacCormick, Times Literary Supplement
`Norm and Nature makes a substantial and valuable contribution to
contemporary theorizing about the nature of law. It exposes new
dimensions of the debates between positivists and their opponents
and explores these with some precision, often in an absorbing and
provocative way ... there is a wealth of careful and subtle
reasoning in this book which deserves attention from legal
theorists simply on its own merits, and which will be of
special interest to positivists because it raises doubts about how
comprehensive and illuminating a positivist account of law can
be.'
Canadian Philosophical Reviews
'His fascinating book, Norm and Nature: The Movements of Legal
Thought, argues that there is deep significance to a feeling that
every undergraduate must have had in first considering the modern
classics of legal theory: that there is something good to be said
on each side ... There is much that is worth considering here and
much of value in his deft reconstruction of the arguments of the
various sides ... most challenging for present purposes is
his metajurisprudential thesis: Is it sound?'
Leslie Green, York University, Toronto, American Political Science
Review, Vol. 88, No. 1, March 1994
`fascinating book'
American Political Science Review
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